Bucks owner to Bulls fans: Stay home or you're going to be lonely and sad on drive home

Jamie Dinan, one of the Milwaukee Bucks' primary owners, wants to save Chicago Bulls fans some trouble ahead of their first-round series.  

The playoff series opens in Chicago on Saturday, but switches to Milwaukee in Game 3. Dinan has some advice for Chicago fans, who will once again travel in droves down I-94, as they did during the season, to Milwaukee to watch their team play the Bucks. 

"I would say it's going to be a very long, long, lonely drive home to west Chicago after the games here," Dinan told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel's Charles F. Gardner. "That's my advice, OK. Stay home, because you're going to be really lonely and sad on that long ride home."

"We haven't exceeded my expectations," said fellow owner Marc Lasry, who purchased the team with Wes Edens and Dinan last year. "We've still got to win the championship. We've still got plenty of room.

"But look, let's be honest. Last year we were the worst team. This year we're in the playoffs. Did we think we were going to do that? I sure was hoping we were going to do that. That was one of our dreams."

Lasry also delivered a warning for the Bulls, saying that Bucks fans intend to show up strong in Chicago. 

"The real question is are the Bulls fans worrying about us going down to Chicago," said Lasry. "I'm not worried about the Bulls fans. We've got our fans; we've got the greatest fans. You'll see what happens."